Tony Goodwin with Artisan Industry of Columbia forms putty to use on 'trees' in the children's section of the Brentwood Library in 2009. / JEANNE REASONOVER / FILE / The Tennessean

BRENTWOOD — The Children’s Library inside the Brentwood Library has received some more national recognition.

The Reading Rainbow blog of the PBS children's television show has named the façade of the Brentwood facility in its list of “10 Magical Children’s Libraries” in honor of the website’s Library Theme of the Week.

Other children’s libraries, which were judged on their overall looks, on the list include those in Cerritos and Camarillo, Calif.; Macomb, Mich.; Memphis; Kansas City, Mo.; Minnetonka, Minn.; Fairfield, Conn.; Cliffside Park, N.J.; and Charlotte, N.C.

The Brentwood Library’s Children’s Library was also named one of the top 10 children’s libraries in the country, according to Livability.com.

10 Magical Children’s Libraries In Honor of Our Library Theme of the Week!

“In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.” -Anne Lamott

This week our theme is LIBRARIES and how much we love them! Like books, libraries truly are places where magic and miracles live… even if they sometimes look plain and mundane on the outside. We all know that we aren’t supposed to judge a book by its cover, but what about libraries? Should we judge a library by its outward façade?

In honor of this week’s theme I’ve collected ten of the most magical-looking children’s libraries I could find. I’m sure there are some beautiful libraries out there that I wasn’t able to include, so if you love your public library be sure to tell us in the comments below!

1. Cerritos Millenium Library in Cerritos, CA (photo by Victor Rocha)

2. Central Library in Kansas City, MO (Photo by Kansas City Public Library)